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Remembering IEEE Director Emeritus Theodore W. Hissey

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But in a 2014 interview with The Institute , Hissey said his real passion was organizing outreach events for students and mentoring new volunteers through IEEE Young Professionals. “I The company made electrical measurement instruments and control and power systems. Later he was a principal engineer at Macro Corp.,

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Electric Vehicle Industry Associations – Joining Forces to Drive Adoption

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Common goals include speeding the development of industry standards , deployment of sufficient EV charging infrastructure and passing legislation favorable to the EV market – ranging from changes in the way utilities can price electricity to requiring that charge points need to be integrated into public building projects.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Cal Energy Commission awards $1.5M to Berkeley to advance open-source advanced smart charging technology; OpenVBOSS

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million to develop an advanced smart charging technology that maintains plug-in electric vehicle consumer needs while reducing charging loads, to achieve electricity grid benefits. SEP2); Zigbee; Society of Automotive Engineers J1772; International Standards Organization 15118; etc.,

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions. Methanol in China. These strategies are closely linked to the economy.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. Lead organization. contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. Description. traditional crops.

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